Personally I think the horn treatment is wrong. In addition to the "Goof
"with the loud stereo blasting body punching bass in my neighborhood, you
now have someone blowing a car horn continuously. I personally prefer the
short snap of a nine as you blow out his tires. Less obtrusive in the
hood; as it is a common sound. No, I guess that is a bad idea also, the
police would rather catch shooters than boomers, and I do have a thing about
other people firing guns in my neighborhood.
I can tell you that the people down the street stopping and blowing the car
horn constantly for five minutes at 5:30AM in the morning, to get a roofer
friend out for work, elicits the same response from me. If I heard someone
take a shot at their car, and the horn go suddenly silent I would roll over,
smile, and go back to sleep thinking they finally got what they so richly
deserve.
Why is it so hard for the cops to catch such goofs? You can hear them two
blocks away. It also gives reasonable cause to stop, ticket, check for
warrants, and completely search the car. Talk about profiling. When drug
dealing and crime is prevalent in a neighborhood guess what also is? That's
right, people with so little respect that they do such things, as well as
deal drugs. So crack down on these quality of life criminals and you also
start solving a neighborhood's other problems. Oh, that's right, we can't
even supply the police officers to arrest drug dealers openly dealing on the
street corner, after the Mayor's cutting the force. So there is no time for
"quality of life" for Minneapolis neighborhoods. But then again what care
do the politicians have for "quality of life" in poor neighborhoods.
No, shooting is way too extreme, the bullets might ricochet and hurt an
innocent person. Baseball bats don't ricochet though, so I think a
compromise might be to make it legally justifiable to take a baseball to the
offending car. And to the offending driver if he protests too vigorously.
Or, an even better idea is to take the license number, run it, then park a
car with loud speakers outside his house blaring Box Car Willie at 120 db.
You know, the stuff that blew up the Martian's heads in that Jack Nickelson
movie. Or how about if we take an evangelical minister and beat on the door
at 5:00 AM then preaching him a fire and brimstone sermon for the next five
minutes on the sinful nature of people with SUV Boomers. No the Box Car
Willie is worse punishment. Now that would be cruel punishment, and funny
as hell.
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village, a neighborhood that once had way too much of its own share
of SUV Boomers.
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